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.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

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

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