he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Money often costs too much.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.