In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

I am not young enough to know everything.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.