Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.