We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.