But The Might-have-been Is But Boggy Ground

At Banquets Surfeit Not, But Fill; Partake, And Retire; And Eat Not Again Till You Crave.

All Mankind, Not Excluding Americans, Are Sinners--miserable Sinners, As Even No Few Bostonians Themselves Nowadays Contritely Respond In The Liturgy.

To Treat Of Human Actions Is To Deal Wholly With Second Causes.

When I Think Of This Life I Have Led; The Desolation Of Solitude It Has Been; The Masoned, Walled-town Of A Captain's Exclusiveness, Which Admits But Small Entrance To Any Sympathy From The Green Country Without - Oh, Weariness! Heaviness! Guinea-coast Slavery Of Solitary Command!

All The World Over, The Picturesque Yields To The Pocketesque.