How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.