Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.