There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
the best of all good friends is pride.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.