There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Threatened folk live long.

Fair play is a jewel.

The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.