The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

The first great law is to obey.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.