A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Law dies, books never.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!