... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

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.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.