North and South on A Thousand and One Nights: “the steam-hammer, which was recalling to Mr. Hale some of the wonderful stories of subservient genii in the Arabian Nights”
North and South on Don Quixote: “One cannot help admiring him, with a mixture of pity in one's admiration, something like what one feels for Don Quixote.”
North and South on Robinson Crusoe: “A cast-away lonely as Robinson Crusoe--a prisoner immured in a dungeon for life--nay, even a saint in Patmos, has his endurance, his strength, his faith, best described by being spoken of as "a man."”
Wives and Daughters on A Thousand and One Nights: “we are like the genie and the fairy in the _Arabian Nights' Entertainment_, who each cried up the merits of the Prince Caramalzaman and the Princess Badoura.”
Mary Barton on Sartor Resartus: “In choosing their delegates, too, the operatives had had more regard to their brains, and power of speech, than to their wardrobes; they might have read the opinions of that worthy Professor Teufelsdreck, in Sartor Resartus, to judge from the dilapidated coats and trousers, which yet clothed men of parts and of power.”
Mary Barton on Essays: “One tried to read "Emerson's Essays," and fell asleep in the attempt; the other was turning over a parcel of new music”