For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

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.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.