Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.