Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.