Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.