Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.