all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

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.

He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.