There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

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.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less