The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving Quotes
Of all the old festivals… that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with out conviviality and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.
Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holiday customs. It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly less characteristic surface. Many of the […]
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.
They who drink beer will think beer.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
A woman’s life is a history of the affections.
