The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.