The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.