There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.