Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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!

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.