Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.