Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.