Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Keep your friendships in repair.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Be a gift and a benediction.