A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.