The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Fanny FernAdvice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Fanny FernWhen a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
Fanny FernWhy don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.
Fanny Fern