Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!