But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.