It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.