Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.