tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.