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.

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.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

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.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

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