There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.