Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

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.

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.