No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.