There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

And I fell violently on my face.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal