To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.