No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.