The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.