What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.