Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.