Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.

Her voice was loud and cheerful, the way it was when nothing was well and she was determined not to show it.

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

Greatness is in every single one of us, but the problem is that most people fail to show theirs to the world.

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.