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.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

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

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