Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.