A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.