The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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 power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

Wherever there is power there is age.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.