In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.