The world meets nobody half way.

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

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

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 am in love with the green earth.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?