That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.