It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.