Youth should be a savings bank.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.