An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.
I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.