The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.