"That certain sign of intense selfishness — he never gave any one credit for a good motive, for he believed no one bet…"

"Who has not observed in the daily intercourse of domestic life, that the very subject we have been striving to avoid,…"

"There are some moments, the hues of which are like those on the wing of a butterfly — a touch brushes them away."

"There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ; that childish, glad, and confiding tim…"

"THE history of a minute — why, it would give a bird's-eye view of every possible variety in human existence. Wonderfu…"

"... — for nothing is more mournful than man's work and man's skill going to ruin for want of man's care — ..."

"Perhaps there is no moment when beloved objects are so much beloved, as on the return from a long absence. … Assuredl…"

"It is wonderful how some words ever were invented, for they express what does not exist—confidence is among the numbe…"

"We talk of the influence of education — in what does it consist ? Here were two with the same blood flowing in their …"

"[Of Sir Robert Evelyn]: [He might have said, that] if there be one habit more than another the dry-rot of all that is…"