Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.