Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.