It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

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

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

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.