The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.