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Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may remain and occasionally ache, yet the earliest agony of its recent infliction is felt no more." - So saying, he shook Lovel cordially by the hand, wished him good night, and took his leave. 2em

there is much puffing there is little talent: an.d where every thing is recommended as excellent there is scarcely one thing entitled to that commendation. Bad articles require to be gilded, but the productions of genuine merit are, when 'unadorned, adorned the most.'

is more difficult to preserve than to acquire : whatever is won may be lost; and to cease to acquire, is to begin to lose.