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.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head