Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.