“When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.” IfsMayStoriesCoursesBeliefFictionGoneCurrentsRanRelaxSmoothCircuitsCounterfeit Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!” MayMonthsBedFortuneIncomePensWornRetiredGood FortunePensionButlersStumpsDeath Bed Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.” MaySeemsBeautifulReservesPatheticDepartedModificationElegyDeparted Friends Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.” WorldMayAgePraiseAncientKneesGentlemanShallowGlancesAdmiringToo DeepDupesBucklesPigtails Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard