What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, andamp;c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet.

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

We drink one another's healths and spoil our own.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves.
We love them at once for being so.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet -- except in dreams.

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you.