Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.