The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

Law dies, books never.

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.