Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.