Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.