A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.