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

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

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