There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.