Her skin was white as leprosy.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.