There is a sacredness in tears

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

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

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.