“Water, water everywhereNor any drop to drink.”

“Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.”

“About, about, in reel and routThe death-fires danced at night;The water, like a witch's oils,Burnt green, and blue, and white”

“The frost performs its secret ministry,Unhelped by any wind.”

“Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

“Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth”