No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

My vocation to preach on paper.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.