Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.