Mothers can forgive anything!

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Love is a beautifier.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.