A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

One can love any man that is generous.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.