The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.