But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.