Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.