Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.