We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.