It is only a fool and a quack and a driveller when it professes to heal the evils that spring from the body.

My blue devils spring from the body; consequently my mind, which, as you know, is a particularly wise mind, wrestles riot against them.

Tell me frankly," renewed Augustus, after a pause, "do you ever repent?
Do you ever think, if you had been a shop-boy with a white apron about your middle, that you would have been a happier and a better member of society than you now are ?" "Repent!" said Clifford, fiercely; and his answer opened more of his secret heart, its motives, its reasonings, and its peculiarities than were often discernible,--"repent! that is the idlest word in our language.

No; the moment I repent, that moment I reform! Never can it seem to me an atonement for crime merely to regret it.

My mind would lead me, not to regret, but to repair! Repent! no, not yet.