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

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!