Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also