"We visit […] a neighboring graveyard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place."

"What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next."

"That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!"

"My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again."

"The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a simulated sorrow."

"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.[…] The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and…"

"The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb which assumes to illustrate the advantage …"

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age."

"It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to…"

"It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight."