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

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

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.

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

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.