When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.