I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

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.

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

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

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

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.