When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

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.