And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.