Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.