The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

We cannibals must help these Christians.