Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.