There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.