Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.