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.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.