A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.