Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.