The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or