tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.