The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.