There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.