Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.