Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.