Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.