To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair.

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

The memory of a past happiness is the anguish of today.

It was well said of a certain German book that ‘er lasst sich nicht lesen—it does not permit itself to be read.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

Your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.