Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Joe gave me some more gravy.

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.