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.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.