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.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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!

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.