cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.