Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

It may have seemed like an insane thing to do at the time, but somehow...staying in New York would have been even crazier.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

She marveled at the futility of his method: he was acting as if, by naming her opinion in advance, he would make her unable to alter it.