It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

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

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?