So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.