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 the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

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

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

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.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog and no man: that hour is a hard one, but not the hardest. There is still another hour which follows, when he learns that in his infinite comparative minuteness and abjectness, the gods do likewise despise him, and own him not of their clan.