I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.