It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.