Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Steel True, Blade Straight.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.