The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.