It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.