Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
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.