We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.