He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.