“There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.”

“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”

“Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.”

“Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.”

“It is thus with our life. We silently glide along, little dreaming about the waves which will so soon sweep over us, dashing us up against the rocks, or stranding us forever. we do not dream that we shall ever wreck, until the greater wave comes over us, and we bend beneath its power.”

“Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.”

“This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was a brand new day in which anything could happen.”