Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.