Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.