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

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.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.