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.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.