Defeat may be victory in disguise.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Art is the child of Nature.

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.