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Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.