The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.