As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

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.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.