When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.