The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

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

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!