Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.