I have taken to living by my wits.

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.