Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?