I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

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 never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

To a young heart everything is fun.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.