For some years he retained Volney T. Hoggatt, an immense man built like a gorilla, as a bodyguard and smoke-blower.

He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath.

I stayed home for a couple days and got blotto four times. I did the usual bad drunk routine; cried a lot, moaned about my life.