It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

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

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.