He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.