In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.