Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.