The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.