After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.