There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.