We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

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.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.