A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

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?