Fair play is a jewel.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.