Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.