We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.