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."

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

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.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.