There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.