This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

To a young heart everything is fun.

We are so very 'umble.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.