Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.