Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

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

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.