So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'