There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.