Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.