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.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.