Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.