He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any …”

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long…”

“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the…”

“Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Gre…”