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

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.