Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

To Be is to live with God.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.