There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

All must respect those who respect themselves.