Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.