Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.