We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.