What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.