Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.