I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. - Charles Lamb

Now all things that were ordained for the festival were turned from their properties to do the office of a black funeral. The wedding cheer served for a sad burial feast, the bridal hymns were changed for sullen dirges, the sprightly instruments to melancholy.bells, and the flowers that should have been strewed in the bride’s path now served but to strew her corse. Now, instead of a priest to marry her, a priest was needed to bury her, and she was borne to church indeed, not to augment the cheerful hopes of the living, but to swell the dreary numbers of the dead.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.