I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

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

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.