Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Self-command is the main elegance.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.