The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

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

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.