The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.