Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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.