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

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.