The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.