The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Fair play is a jewel.