One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.