Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.