The reality is more excellent than the report.

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

Some will always be above others.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

No sensible person ever made an apology.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.