I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.