Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.