I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

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

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.