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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.