A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.