What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

It loves more readily than it hates.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.