The improved means to the unimproved end.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.