Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.