This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.