Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.