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.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.