Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.