The oil and wine of merry meeting.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.