We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!