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.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.