Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.