Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
Even trees do not die without a groan.
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?