That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.