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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o'

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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write h

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Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as m

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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but c

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his ex

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

These gems have life in them: their colors

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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

It is never too late to be who you might have bee

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It is never too late to be who you might have been.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of o

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and h

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!

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O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the

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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

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