Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

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.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.