The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.