He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

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

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

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

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?