We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.