Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.