Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

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

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.