It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.