Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

To be rude is as good as being clever.