When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.