Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.