Nothing extenuate, 

 Nor set down aught in malice. . . . 



Shakespeare, Othello to his biographers. 



Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is power- 

 less against truth. 



Huxley. 



What a curious, interesting book, a biographer, well ac- 

 quainted with my life, could write; it is still more wonderful 

 and extraordinary than that of my father. 



Audubon, in letter to his wife, 



March 12, 1828. 



