That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.