To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!