Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.