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A woman should be well infotmed, but not a scholar

653. — Our soûls are musical instruments, wliich voice, gesture, and looks, cause to resound.

654.-^-Self sufiSciency is àlmost invariably the cornpanion of insnfficiency.

655. — ^We raise ourselves aboyé those who însult us, by forgiving them. (71)

656. — He who makes himself unbearable to others soon becomes so to himself.

657. — The mind exhausts itself, the language of tho heart is inexhaustible.

658. — The most us^ul of intellectoal faculties is oommon sensé. •

659. — There is a great distance between the intelligence which seizes, and that which créâtes : the latter is genius.

660. — To pardon a great criminal is to do an injury to Society.

661. — ^We are agreeable through wit; interesting through the heart ; great throngh the soûl.

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