We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children." -- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - John Wesley, founder of Methodist doctrine