One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.