Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.