But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.