Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.