A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.