Now, now that she was older and perhaps wiser, love meant a partnership, in which each partner would be honest to the other, in which each would wish and strive for the other's welfare, to that this their joint welfare might be insured. Then, in those early girlish days, it had meant a total abnegation of self. The one was of earth, and therefore possible. The other had been a ray from heaven, - and impossible, except in a dream.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.