What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

Humor is wit and love.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Pray God, keep us simple.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

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.