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

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.