The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.