Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
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.
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
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.
Improvement is nature.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.