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

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.