Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Great men always have dogs.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Great men have always had dogs.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.