A man must take the fat with the lean.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.