There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.