Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

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

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

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!

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.