The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.