It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

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.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.