Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?