Desultory thoughts and reflections

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

Flowers are the bright remembrancers of youth: They waft back with their bland and odorous breath The joyous hours that only young life knows, Ere we have learned that this fair...

Intrepidus was a naturally, and Diplomaticus an artificially great man. The first reposing a just confidence in his own powers, required no extraneous aid; while the latter sole...