Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained