And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.