Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.