The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.