No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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