And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.