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.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.