A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.