“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”

“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”

“You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.”

“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”

“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”

“The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”