Nothing changes, though much be new-fashioned: new fashions but revivals of things previous.

In the books of the past we learn naught but of the present; in those of the present, the past.

All Mardi's history--beginning middle, and finis--was written out in capitals in the first page penned.

The whole story is told in a title- page.

An exclamation point is entire Mardi's autobiography." "Who speaks now ?" said Media, Bardianna, Azzageddi, or Babbalanja ?" "All three: is it not a pleasant concert ?" "Very fine: very fine .-- Go on; and tell us something of the future." "I have never departed this life yet, my lord." "But just now you said you were risen from the dead." "From the buried dead within me; not from myself, my lord." "If you, then, know nothing of the future--did Bardianna ?" "If he did, naught did he reveal.