The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

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

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.