Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.