Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.