Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
—Shelley.
51. But no living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.—Wm. James.
52. ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is simply a narrative of facts, though the facts did not happen to take place.—Stephen.
53. When the Yosemite was discovered, it was supposed to be the only valley of the kind; but nature is not so poor as to possess only one of anything.—Muir.
54. The haste to get rich, and the intense struggles of business rivalry, probably destroy as many lives in America every year as are lost in a great battle.—J. F. Clarke.
55. I must be Mabel after all, and shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn.—Lewis Carroll.
56. As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?—Emerson.
57. “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered Miss Rebecca.—Thackeray.
58. And was not their experience, who lived in remote cabins, or wandered night after night through the loneliest woods, stronger evidence than the cold reasoning of those who hardly ever stirred abroad except in daylight?—Page.