As your distress is occasioned by my company, said Eve, it is fortunately in my power to relieve it.
Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be a great difference in our characters and knowledge and appearance. One may be rude and coarse and ign...
That all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors, or dec...
That dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.
Every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no...
If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
Now Mr. Green was so completely a star of a confined orbit, that his ideas seldom described a tangent to their ordinary revolutions.
My eyes are true and as delicate as a hummingbird's in the day; but they are nothing worth boasting of by starlight.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.
I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His goodness in trouble and tribulations as on a calm, solemn, quiet day in a forest, when His voice is...
Friend, I am grieved when I find a venator or hunter of your experience and observation, following the current of vulgar error. The animal you describe, is in truth a species of the bos ferus or bos s...
As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in o...
To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative i...
Say to these kind and gentle females, that a heart-broken and failing man returns them his thanks. Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; an...
One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suff...