No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.