In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

Please, sir, I want some more.

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

A man must take the fat with the lean.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.