Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.