The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.