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

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.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?