After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.