Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

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

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.

Welcome as the flowers in May.