It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.