Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

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.

Genius is full of trash.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.