Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed. - Anthony Trollope

Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel.” “That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live.” “My dear John, you forget your Bible. Jacob did not live half as long as that.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring; when the summer is yet but three days old, and all the various shades of green which nature can put forth are still in their unsoiled purity of freshness.