Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.