The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.