There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

No book was ever written down by any but itself.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.