My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.