To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.