Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.