A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

Literature is the garden of wisdom.