"If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride, Have young companions ever at thy side; But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success," Go… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is that glorious Epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris."

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.