Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.