Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.