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.

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.