There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.