Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.