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

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

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.

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