We encourage one another in mediocrity.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.