As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.