Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.