Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.