We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.