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

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

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

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.