Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom