Lord help my poor soul.

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.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.