Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.