I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

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

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.