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.

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

We can only know others by ourselves.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.