Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
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.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.