Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.