Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.