tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.