It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.