Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.
But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?
Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!
... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!
There's no doctor like meat and drink.
lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.