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

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.