In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

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.

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

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