“I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.”

“They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”

“A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him!”

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”

“This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.”

“And Master--or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what.”