Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.