Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

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

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.