Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

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

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.