What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.