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.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.