Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.
This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
Mother's love grows by giving.
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.