I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than …

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings …

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

One good man, Oh ain't much, honey ain't much, It's only everything...

The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.