Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.