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

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

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