England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.