It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

He who has loved often ... has loved never.