In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.