Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.