She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.