The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

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

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.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.