If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

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

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

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

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

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.