English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.