It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

They who drink beer will think beer.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England