We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.