Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.