Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.