Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up...

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little...

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.