Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.