Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.