How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.