The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
The violin - that most human of all instruments.