Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Consequences are unpitying.

Teach love, for that is what you are.