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.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.