Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

Moonlight is sculpture.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?