It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.