The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

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.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.