Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.