It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.