I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

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 an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.