Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.