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!

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

His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.