We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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.