But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

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.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.