O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.