It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

But many of these misdeeds were like the subtle muscular movements which are not taken account of in the consciousness, though they bring about the end that we fix our mind on and desire.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.

What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

Why should I not marry the man who loves me, if I love him? said Catherine. To her the effort was something like the leap of a woman from the deck into the lifeboat.