Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.