Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?