A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.