Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

I am in love with this green Earth.

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

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.