I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.