Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

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.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.