He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.