Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Beauty rests on necessities.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.