To be rude is as good as being clever.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

The fearless make their own way.

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.