The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.