Let photographers and daguerreotypers do what they will, and improve as they may with further skill on that which skill has already done, they will never achieve a portrait of the human face divine.

Let biographers, novelists, and the rest of us groan as we may under the burdens which we so often feel too heavy for our shoulders; we must either bear them up like men, or own ourselves too weak for the work we have undertaken.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
_Labor omnia vincit improbus_.

Such should be the chosen motto of every labourer, and it may be that labour, if adequately enduring, may suffice at last to produce even some not untrue resemblance of the Rev.Francis Arabin.
Of his doings in the world, and of the sort of fame which he has achieved, enough has been already said.

It has also been said that he is forty years of age, and still unmarried.