Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.