If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

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.

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.