It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.