But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.