Washington Irving
  • The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  • The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  • Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  • Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.