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

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

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.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.