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

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

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.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

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.

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