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!

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

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

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.