It is doubtful whether advantage is derived from a constant intercourse with superior minds. If our own be possessed of power, the collision is likely to excite it into action, and original thoughts are consequently elicited. But, if a great inequality exists, the inferior mind is quelled by the strong, or loses whatever features of idiosyncracy it might once have possessed, in an unconscious subserviency to its more vigorous opponent. CONFESSION. How many errors do we confess to our Creator, that we dare not reveal to his fallible creatures. LOVE. Some natures, like trees of the torrid zone, Yield fruit but once, and prematurely die; No second love such hearts are form’d to own, They palpitate but once with passion’s sigh. LOVE-MATCHES. Love-matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar. WOMEN. Women, with their bright imaginations, tender hearts, and pure minds, create for themselves idols, on which they lavish their worship, making their hearts temples, in which the false god is adored. But, alas! the object of their best and fondest feelings generally too soon proves to be of base clay, instead of pure gold; and though pity would fain intervene to veil its defects, or even to cherish it in despite of them, virtue, reason, and justice combine finally to destroy it; but, in the deed, too often injure the fane in which it was enshrined. LIFE. Life resembles a river flowing rapidly to the ocean of eternity, and in its flight passing by brilliant, as well as sombre objects, without the power of doing aught more than for a few brief moments receiving our hue from them. COURAGE. A higher degree of courage is required to pardon an injury than to avenge it. In the first, the triumph is over self, the most difficult of all; but in the second, it is over another, which is always more easily achieved. LIGHT LITERATURE. Works of light literature often have a vogue that more solid ones fail to acquire; as paper kites mount in the air, when a more consistent substance cannot ascend. DECEIVERS.