Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Pray God, keep us simple.