To be rude is as good as being clever.
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.