All that I intended was, that self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of min… - Sarah Josepha Hale

Crackers toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called dumplings! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
The roughest waves of human destiny—
Cheering the good, and to the poor oppressed
Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.