Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.