Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.