There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.