At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

If not against us, nature is not for us.

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

Only the man who says no is free