Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.