History is clarified experience.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.