To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

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.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.