Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, "I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me."

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

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.