O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

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.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.