What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.