I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.