To a young heart everything is fun.

I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Change begets change.

I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.