How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.