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

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

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.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.