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

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

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

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

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!

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.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.