Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.