It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

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.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.