ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.