all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

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.

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

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!