I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense