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.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.