Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.