We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.