The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

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

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.