If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.