Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

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

We die of too much life.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.

The easiest way of life is the best.