Life is a long lesson in humility.

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

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.