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

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

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.