Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.