Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

But with morning cool repentance came.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.