The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Trifles make the sum of life.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Joe gave me some more gravy.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.