Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.