To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

I fell in love with melancholy

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

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.

The best things in life make you sweaty.