Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.