But what said Bardianna, when they dunned him for autographs?
--'Who keeps the register of great men?
who decides upon noble actions?
and how long may ink last?
Alas! Fame has dropped more rolls than she displays; and there are more lost chronicles, than the perished books of the historian Livella.' But what is lost forever, my lord, is nothing to what is now unseen.

There are more treasures in the bowels of the earth, than on its surface." "Ah! no gold," cried Yoomy, "but that comes from dark mines." Said Babbalanja, "Bear witness, ye gods! cries fervent old Bardianna, that besides disclosures of good and evil undreamed of now, there will be other, and more astounding revelations hereafter, of what has passed in Mardi unbeheld." "A truce to your everlasting pratings of old Bardianna," said King Media; why not speak your own thoughts, Babbalanja?
then would your discourse possess more completeness; whereas, its warp and woof are of all sorts,--Bardianna, Alla-Malolla, Vavona, and all the writers that ever have written.

Speak for yourself, mortal!" "May you not possibly mistake, my lord?
for I do not so much quote Bardianna, as Bardianna quoted me, though he flourished before me; and no vanity, but honesty to say so.

The catalogue of true thoughts is but small; they are ubiquitous; no man's property; and unspoken, or bruited, are the same.

When we hear them, why seem they so natural, receiving our spontaneous approval?
why do we think we have heard them before?
Because they but reiterate ourselves; they were in us, before we were born.