You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.