Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.