The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. - William Makepeace Thackeray

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the fields, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us if they did.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?