Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.