It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

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

Genius is full of trash.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.