When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.