Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

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.