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.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.