In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.