Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!

Families are always rising and falling in America.

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.