I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people’s one.
Polly put the kettle on, we’ll all have tea.
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o’er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.
Novelties please less than they impress.
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.
There might be some credit in being jolly.
My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!
Eccentricities of genius.
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!