How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

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

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

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

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.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.