When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.