What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.