Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.