The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.