Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

A person can't help their birth.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.