The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

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.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.