We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.