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

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

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.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.