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

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.