Knowledge exists to be imparted.

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.