A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.