... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

A man must take the fat with the lean.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."