Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete—that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.

That before living agent, now became the living instrument.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

And every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.