A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once not oftener.

Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one I think it is.

It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.