Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.