Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.