How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.