If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

All but God is changing day by day.