Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Injuries come only from the heart.