A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.