You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.