Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!

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

Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

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

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.