He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.