Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.