The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.