Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.