“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

“Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.”

“One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.”

“I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.”

“Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding but not of a capacity to supply the cooler reflection which her own husband sometimes needed; and so entirely waiting to be guided on every occasion that whether he was risking his fortune or spraining his ankle, she remained equally useless.”