I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.