It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.