All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.