More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
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.