“Sir, I will take her with nine thousand.”
In Solitude.—Those beings only are fit for solitude who like nobody, are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.—Zimmerman.
In Lasting Remembrance.—Write your name with kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the people you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
A Curiosity in Words.—The five vowels appear in alphabetical order in “abstemious,” also in the word “facetious,” and “abstemiously” and “facetiously” give us the y.
Looking Ahead.—When we meet with the little vexatious incidents of life, by which our quiet is too often disturbed, it will prevent many painful sensations if we only consider—How insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence.
How to be Learned.—A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered, “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I was ignorant.”
Liberty.
’Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume.
Cowper.