No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.