Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.