Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.