Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.