Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
Life too near paralyses art.
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.