"Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife wil… - L. Frank Baum

Glossie looked around at the houses. The snow was quite deep in that village, and just before them was a roof only a few feet above the sledge. A broad chimney, which seemed to Glossie big enough to admit Claus, was at the peak of the roof. “Why don’t you climb down that chimney?” asked Glossie. Claus looked at it. “That would be easy enough if I were on top of the roof,” he answered. “Then hold fast and we will take you there,” said the deer, and they gave one bound to the roof and landed beside the big chimney. “Good!” cried Claus, well pleased, and he slung the pack of toys over his shoulder and got into the chimney.

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king’s decree of a scholar’s essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.