Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.