Patience and gentleness is power.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

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.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?