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

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.