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.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

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

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.