Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

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?

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.