Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?