Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades