If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

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.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.