The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.