There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.