The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Humor is wit and love.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.