The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.