We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

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

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

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

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.