The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!