It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.