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

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

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

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

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!