Frequent the company of your betters.

Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.