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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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There are secrets in all families, you know.

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the...more

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Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few w...more