My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.