There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.