The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.