Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.