'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at …

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than …

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.

'You're pulling my leg.'

You will learn nothing of importance from this story except, perhaps, how to die; but then, you were born knowing that and in any case it only has to be done o…