I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.