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 foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.