Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.