Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.