He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

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 profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.