The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

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.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.