Mother's love grows by giving.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.