Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.