Pearls of Thought

of our existence; repose is d

rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial lif

least nothing good. All has

works, labor alone f

it the best discipline of a state. Honorable industry always travels the same road wi

sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the gr

is Labor, ease

into sloth and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish

hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early

lie in hard labor forgets the early ri

eath; the hardest labor brings

purpose; not the power to achieve,

and the man," but "tools and the man," a

obody can meddle with it without becom

evised. Personal property brings you into society with men. But land is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel of ground is deeded

nterpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, b

the science

le in homely language as in fine speech. As to the way of dishing up the meat, hung

of the poe

e trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties

ay see thee: it springs out of the most r

lt for their thoughts themselves to escape being the same. If it is high flown and bombastic

then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter; which ma

s are a maj

you can no more exercise your reason, if you live in the constant dread of laughter,

e cipher key, wherewith we de

nables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent its

n immoderate laughter

ll pleasures have a sting in the tail, though

ans sympath

right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that

of my reason, no human being has

and the heart, that shower at the same

h which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it

living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and stat

, "Do this, or avoid that," unless we also declare, "This shall be the consequence of your non-co

ery utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of

law did not enable men to catch at something, balking

al, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to du

ountry, that jurisprudence, or the knowledge of those laws, i

direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the

f they do not exaggerate it even to calumny. It is thus that justi

law, and none but tyrants

e is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequent

enter but not easy to

laws do with m

f it does not strike the guilty it hits some one else. As every crim

precious seeing to t

not add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to transmit it to others. Lear

man fit company f

fort of old age, standing for wealth with pover

idest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty

on of what he still continues ignorant of. Consider this, and, instead of boasting thy knowledge of a few t

y it on ignorance; for learning being the property but of a very few, and those poor ones too, I am afraid we

or yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if t

d in the blood of brave men. Our religion of to-day is still that o

Colonna wrought upon her husband's dressing-gown. And may we not justly regard our app

the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers who b

e and liberty and property. Good fame is an outwork that defends them all and renders them all valuable. The la

abuse me; but, since there are enough of them to make a small library, I am secretly pleased to see the number i

f a citizen could do what they forbid, it would be no longer l

may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both

liberty with every ligamen

instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to

the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of

n some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walk

ly becomes symmetrical and clear; when, lo! as the infant clasps his hands, and cries, "See, see! the puzz

ut we ever hope

se to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees as we advance,

e are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are p

ason of strength they be four-score years, yet is their strength

ous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams wh

game much, but I like to play my cards well, a

st, acts the best; and he whose heart beats th

e liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances

Ulysses, be tied to the mast; we must know how to listen to the so

han to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our

only passport to the satisfac

embers all the incidents of his past existence, who would accept

d of immorta

't know where, and the sea begins, and then

f life till a vain repentance minds u

eclineth ever runneth with a perpetual ebb and fall

of life. "I have been, and that is all," said Saladin the Great, who was conqueror of the East. The longest l

for the triumphs

the tomb, alas!

mer-man is but a

shiver and persp

e of human th

f they called it a happy valley. God is more pleased with those who think everything right in the world, than with those who thin

nt to want, not from enjoy

always in the expectat

fetime in a day, and so grow old between the r

ght which the sun sends into our windows, which he pours freely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and

!-Goethe's

; without whose vesting beauty a

ffspring of heaven,

le of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of th

but oh, how diff

osebuds peeping o

pluck up kisses by the roots tha

ool swallow up

ccupation in which wages are not given in propo

nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respe

rain of the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently

t is a charming relaxation. In my earlier days I was a banker's clerk, obliged to be at the desk everyday from ten till five o

all seek the dead ones whom they love, or

t is from excellence in polite learning alone that

c as the fist from the palm; the on

truth, to show them the fallacies that are often conc

convincing us of s

at, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, and p

ion of the heart; its end,

that encroach by little and little on the dominion of grief, and it m

cometh soon, wherein no man

d who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with

w, as seek to quench the fire o

oon, and wane like warm full

an takes wine; do not get

e qualities of the sexes correspond. The man's courage is loved by the woman, whose fortitude again is coveted by the man. His vigorous intellect is answ

prudence diminis

or prudent, love is al

tisfied; but the love that flows out upon others i

ve's rewar

urable, it is serene and equable. Even its famous pains begin only with the

things possib

y matters; we should be prudent, never love too fast; profusion

ve, for perfect love c

breath upon thy flame and it is gone for ever, and but l

xion of true lo

m; it either saves or

ut still only light and flickering. The love of the older and di

who flies is conqu

he heart there is always

l the worse when it comes l

uer love who r

ecret in the soft da

artnership allows; cupid aver

red, love's pro

no higher and holier feeling mingle with and consecrate their dream of bli

ove is the last of

s of this world, I have liv

which love is the

ic. Hate can pardon m

ry touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web it

adstone of lov

g which flames befor

sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses,

ntal despot.-Ma

oking one day to h

upon the snow, it dazzles more t

the wedding ring spark

ove seems to fail, it is where self has stepped betwee

ove is to mak

reputation; but he is always generous in his love. Love cannot stay at home; a man cannot keep it

shady flowers in this spring as i

when it does not increa

of the passions: it is the only one that includes in i

y love is a religion

ct of the human comedy opens only at the moment whe

f humanity is

urse of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cup-beare

without reaso

slow and gradual; it may be quick and sudden. But in the morning, when we wake and recognize a change in the world without,

h cannot be hid

listen to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. "

hment of a beautiful dream, and not, as

hing, but to cease to love and to be lo

affection that there does not remain a li

his hands whenever he tries t

by Nature and embroidered

o extend my hand to the crown of poets. Pleasure! Poetry! you a

s, it undoubtedly takes i

e is a physician who never comes until af

ly the love he does n

ress that parleys is half

ith the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, she m

to be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it

s power and effects of love is t

day: "Souls are sisters, fallen from heaven, who all at once recognize and run to meet each other." A little dr

ies all sophistr

s, revelations, inspiration, and the like,

first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but tr

e look at the face of our mother earth, and see all

ture only, but the heart of the mor

mpanionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes to un

st chivalric devotion, what keenness of observation is born under the influence of that feeling which d

you will be so prepared, forewarned, and forearmed, that

ive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there i

s that sleeps in be

wns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation,

rst of heaven's d

white hairs, but competenc

certain mark of c

lie simply for the

more than death the sh

metimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite togethe

y to be exting

ruth is ever the black

dness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the oppo

t the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is mor

, is a vicious

grand, glorious aims,-with immortal longings,-with thoughts which sweep the heavens, and wander through eternity. A pigmy standing on

elow? A little noise in mu

m and movement, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehe

s into our world as to an asylum. And here they will break out into their native music, and utter at interva

on mankind; but now in my age I think I

er than a reasonable an

mmand anything. He is given a freedom of his will; but wherefore? Was it but to torment and perplex him the more? How l

er white nor black, but

r; but how such unallied and disproportioned substances should act u

tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end of

appetites are apt to change as theirs, and fu

e great to littl

reation; the study of his nature the no

re, infinite in his

tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging

e a tincture fr

uperfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show control; you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every

ficial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and simple: wi

, but we can always spe

best posture-m

rticular mark of any profession, but a

d before the lees of clown

s whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure. You must ha

ve a ceremonial nicety into a substantial duty, and the

unborn than to be ill

en are very long afraid of being natural, from

ite politeness of distance to capitulate

d take it moderately; if it be withdrawn, do not detain it. If it come not to thy side,

orals are sworn friends

and (what in colloquial language is called) fussy way of conducting the simplest transactions. They ha

names, which went down in the dust like a gallant banner trodden in the

t makes the martyr, but

f one's faith; it is sad to die the

and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of ac

married their romance ceases and t

be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet a

, we repent at l

re all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters

ing go by desti

ronging any, profits all; but he who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wanders an offence to the world, lives upon spoil and rapine, d

ty, be wife and wid

illusion. That can alone render wedlock the seal that confirms affection

and thrive both in

s, and when they have them, th

operly judged of till the s

to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly a

knows not what there is in that which he marries: mayhap treasures

that cures all the il

than of good sense at the bot

said he, "went so far as to destroy my peace every time that he had the least ailment; but my love fo

ines of latitude and longitud

lous smallness the cobweb of pre-matri

excellent to the eyes of

poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who

e cud of sweet and bit

d ask them what report they bore to heaven, and h

known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ru

meekness grows on a stem

ught for a moment and said, "Meekness gives sm

earful gift; what is it but t

numbness of th

y, moping mela

, and music discord, whe

t makes us young or o

bs color like m

memory is the first that flourishe

onger joy; but sorrow's me

hose contents we tr

the dear delusi

s sleep in us at times, till a wo

ntion; it is the life-blood of imagination, which

scribe of the

the temper, and shifts its scene

d memories and young h

re is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitte

trate than the vindictive wrath w

sin so much as m

it becomes the throned monarch be

ng it only makes a man ungrateful;

ut dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom o

d's mercy, and show none

ey are all equal, mercy shines with even

beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevation

ses of the body, we are half dead before we underst

gained to be only one of the means to some remoter end. The natural flights of

indolent in reproducing. Clear, cold, hard minds are produ

atmosphere of th

ious fire, this fluttering motio

ind of famine for one special food, so the mind has its wants, which do not always call for what is best, but

g its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bot

ll not lie fallow for hal

f is found a hundred times a day, and t

n gold seems to me like a t

well as of heart, and even the cleverness of avar

e that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the

so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which

istributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the

g in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing bu

efore a storm. Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches

t learned through success,

down in the world, and people are glad to get a

s against the setti

n needs fear n

rmy encamped on the Rhine or the Xeres. It is said that, when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury, nothing is to be seen but intoxication. Soon, however, plenty teach

slow in his words, and earne

t the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurr

softly, but freshens everything

the last refinement of van

esty. If we banish Modesty out of the world, she carri

was meek as is

ssion of the deficiency it indicates. He who underva

n she goes, is go

conscience of t

are races. To the English woman it is a du

shuns the d

Each shine in the open day only to

ll a provocati

merit, the virginity of n

owledge, power-al

ed faults looks handsome in three

perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow of the fie

and try to borrow some; for he that goe

ve all you can, give

which, in able hands, might be guided to the most salutary purposes. The object is to e

is Aladdin's

es honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forw

slave-holder in the

orld. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is s

e-blood of the

r empress of th

ight sleeps upon th

l of brightnes

regent of th

her mantle of blu

avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of the

ict to enforce it. I do not see why there should not be

ut of much life so. Aim above morality. Be no

ht, shot through with

th all incense, and with

toe on the misty moun

might, comes from the dusky-curta

, doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding

day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the

s the morn.

es to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth o

t you have that most precious of all good gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain. In a

xy, the watchful mo

one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side,

life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence

lorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simpl

no fount of deep, strong, deathless love,

a-crown to a beggar with intention to break his head, and he picks it up and buys victuals wi

ver shifts man's moral position, is mightier

n the event. Be not one whose motive fo

me feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.

o itself a passivity, eve

vanished hand, and the sound of

n appears, mother

sed to harmony, but organically

the engrossing pursuit; almost the only inn

ession of the highest moral and spiritual idea

between the region of thought and that of phenomena; a glimmering medium between mind and matter, related to both and

soul of har

, moody food of us that t

ont rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem exci

lsion doth in mu

lty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are

spirit lies than tired eyeli

Pan, with the ears that love them

ndle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move

e invisible world; one note of the divine concord which

plicity. It is the most simple picture of a refined and ingenious ide

nly good for which queens and peasants'

safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown ove

s empires, and whose st

n of France; he preferred to be another A

n mind. And if she answers a question which his own mind puts to her, it is only by such a reply as his own mind teach

ptation: like as it was with ?sop's damsel, turned from a cat to a woman, w

ld, is a constant struggle again

ist Nature has a soul, why, so has a steam-engine. Art gifts with soul all matter that it

n; the glory of the One br

e aims at truth it is easier to find the p

very material fact has sheathed w

ning a man or a woman, but swallows your ships like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, ben

thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the

act the noble, and alone know

r of the almight

repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write fro

each what Natur

eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and st

lth of Nature. She shows us only surfaces

ive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face, and remains

of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really w

r of the human mind quickly appears when there is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, whe

ds him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that, by kno

l act innocent, but it cannot

the fancy now has grown the vast ne

afford to be negligent is not

of tongues; but let ill tidings tell th

ght for ideas, and newspapers ar

conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth; it will spread from Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with the fervor of soul which made it burst forth; it will be the reig

more to be feared than a t

; inflicting moral censure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in all ways diligently "administering the discipline of the Church." It may be said, too, that in private

quate to the purposes of common life than

her zenith with the

darkness falls from the w

ght, eldest of

rt not silent: many tongue

p sleep falleth

low, speaks his mind rough an

e of more use to you than to b

ents herself with saying No. She who expla

the first title of

se as shade to light-it heig

to men of sense; clever people tur

ves more pleasure than unif

vast number of clever, hard-headed men,-Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians,-are notorio

seful, and the human mind requires both. The canon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor and reign at the universities, but Home

d exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to d

l matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous; and then we are reduced to that old despair, "If water chokes, what will you drink after it?" The t

great-parent of

y is better than

is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible T

e flower that grows best

uman misery.-A

in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by successive generations of men,-the

ure as the one, and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his

t he carries in h

ion is no less the plague of so

no time for

cupations of man is to

after wave in torr

cks the skies, or like a cradle

the ruffian billows by the top, curl

ce-expectants is a lively se

convictions, while we moderns h

y bladders; opinio

amongst our own party: very happily, else those poor opinions, born with no si

opinions love themselves more

hem. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve, and still more rare to d

e, no more than two hairs or two grains. The m

scarcely anything more than the

learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a

uman life is, to suppose that other men

with pawns first advanced on the chess-board; they may be bea

e foolish defy it, the wise judge it,

erest of all devils i

known to others, and still mo

it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of

but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks

nd we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us,

rn to be as great as he

irst thing necessary to win the love of

ter, comes to all who wor

anything. If you want time yo

n to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority-demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thr

ess people take pains to

hey have the weakest cause, as men get on

orator, as men find a positive pleasure in ca

ost loud when they are least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of Nature; she often

ent is a horse without

eech our orator has made!" But when the Athenians heard Demosthenes, he so filled them with the subject-matter of his oration, that they quite

controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passion

ians, that their periods were so harmonious as that they could be sung as well as spoken. What a ridiculous figure must one

y is nothing but judici

tle blindness to the fact that everything has been s

to Boiardo. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's

is estrangemen

, and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a

ngs us new pleasures exposes

s the virtue of

s the pardoning pow

ever pardons.-

ate each time it stoops f

final pardon whose ear is ever open, and his e

for outward Eden lost, fi

ou would be holy instruct your children, because all the g

ondlings are in danger to be made fools, and the children tha

mislead the understanding, so there is also a partiali

the inclination of the will and affections, and not according

ing there is an image

o expects, by any facts or reasoning, to

will find it more difficult to please hi

es us feel but never s

nd streams: the shallow murmur, but t

the voice of th

t he should compose his passions; and let that be the work

ccompanied with violent passions as

em to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime,

brighter and fuller of fragrance, but they beguile us

should send for the buckets." Thus love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark

atever nourishes them. Fear lo

s which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passions flourish till they reach a certa

ad past bury its

psed for aye! Oh suns behind the

can enjoy the recollections

will break the ties of

h certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In th

s why other folks should

ign o'er transmu

re always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance, and courage, and

constitute a wise man are those o

an afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? Let pati

der the load of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to

ath fat thrushes for a

It undermines, wears, loosens, sep

h the pati

f man, is, perhaps, greater th

truest fort

y one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also learns

gn nations may she always be in the right;

rland to all nobl

God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of

finity nearer than

hat which consists of a man's relations to his co

ir spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword

hand carry gentle

peace doth nourish virtue, and

the midst of rocks; war brings misery to him

rts, plenties, and joy

ng and a peopl

oldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars;

earned lumber i

aving a pet study or science, but a narrow, vulgar soul, which prevents a man from seeing

in our eye that we may always advance towards it

umph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it is

f. Zeuxis made five virgins contribute their charms to his single picture of Helen; and it is as vain for t

, but perfection is no

rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the ski

ular, splendidly null, dead p

Any other kind of persecution can affect our outward circumstances only, ou

and perseverance; for audacity doth almost

story, morning and evening, but for one twelv

iculty out of countenance, and make a seem

rs the marble

t. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in c

nd resolves steadfastly, grows uncon

ity in him being what a noble self-confidence was in Milton. These excluded suitors continue, nevertheless, to hang their garlands

ourse inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, re

ophy is the art of

idle speculations; the rule and conduct of a

the universe and knows

ational expression

days of Aristotle down to those of Sir William Hamilton, tha

peak with your eye, as the Jesuits give it in precept; for there be ma

ensive; no laconism can reach it; 'tis the short-hand of the m

e body, grow more plain and visible with time and age; but the pecu

ounded on the exterior; the relation that exists between visibl

s one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God

that courage bears

our thoughts, as modesty makes us cast down our eye

e by perfect peace of mind. Hence it is to be observed that those who make

eing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and, finding it late, bid the coachman make h

his be sure, wherever it begin to make

that refuse to pity, are miserable upon a several charge

one of the most charming

whereof the latter is a curse; for in evil the best cond

re. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place;

in an honest me

but just slides into it by the gravitation of his n

rever he lists-wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if

ures as they depart, not

our pleasures relish not some pain,

in the barking of dogs, and be content to be led about the earth, over hedges and through sloughs, by the windings and the shifts of poor affrighted vermin; yet, after all, come off, as Messalina, tired, and no

wn their experience to their

, poor bird, thou shalt sleep with me"-so lays it in his bosom and stifles it with his hot breath. The bird ha

that some pain is nearl

egree of pain or languor; 'tis like spending th

hat bites to-morro

usly, that is, as they come towards you to be enjoyed, for then they paint and smile, a

dom. Make love in thy youth, and in old

ure is a man o

ught. Our brightest blazes of gladness are c

ave in store the first blissful m

brace us but to s

apotheosis of sentim

at suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear i

of heaven-bred p

vers other virgins-namely, all the other sciences-make it their business to enrich, polish, and adorn;

erflowing of the

is the angel of high thoughts, that inspir

ght, conveyed to us in the

, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another, and of many others; the pains and p

e brighter clad

he statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his

blossom.-

sserted, but not too contemptible to be acted upon, t

to immortal ver

to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by

ntary move harmonio

rcumstance; that is, it should be inspired by the Real. A particular subject will take a poetic and general character precisely beca

port is poetry. The lyre is

m afar than the familiar worshiper. Poetry is often more beloved by one whose daily vocation is amid the bustle of the world. We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basi

ry, but choicely g

n sense is always: "What is it good for?" a question which would a

earth is nev

-horses, must be fed, n

have scarcely any childhood, a

much water with t

a vicious fecundity, that invites and requires destruction. To publish verses is become a sort of evidence that

poetic pains which only

ibe, but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materia

is depth, after all? Is the pit deeper than the shallow

art of drawing tears-a talent which he has in

ets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad. I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his

poet's finger has passed over t

nspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows

rer births than

as schools of the painters, by much converse in them,

ring what they teac

ints who has combined the usef

ant-eater, and learns to catch one'

have always been

to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise an

have a sharp mind in a ve

t never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. I have always applied to good breeding what Addison, in his "Cato," says of honor: "Honor's a sacred tie

s the main ele

mooths wrink

o delicate natures as perf

t with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the mos

right which is morally

st govern those wh

ere only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essenti

es create the according music

re on the strongest

gh at the squeamishness of his conscie

e to form a state; an hour m

gold, exchanges solid strengt

we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why then we rack the value; then we fi

d will go to othe

n's very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which shou

intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actua

me ours we are no lon

remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may apply to every other cours

to small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to

they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, ar

ot sufficient to balance a single

r feel for the p

or is of others' bread, and how sad a path it

inter, to him that ever fears

raised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the

ttle hath, but he that

s perdition, the proud man's curse, the

ngest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passa

rty parson

r, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command

n the illustrious dead have in them no admixture of envy; for the living pit

diet for us after

praise, there can be no reality in the o

faint pr

e former is only useful among men, but the latter is

is satire in dis

ghters a thousand waiting upon that.

ntains the sum total of reli

s be all my sins rem

ven away; 'tis only God may

ices, ascend morning and evening. Let ou

y at all pray of

aven alone is fi

fe within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift not hands of pra

nt opens he

e audience-chamb

ying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature

t who loveth b

ian had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me

ng promises some gr

ld invite by its beauty. An elegant porch ann

ing something analogous to the work itself; so that we may feel its want as a desire not elsewhere to be gratified. The Italians call the pre

is own side of the case knows

it pleases, cannot see wh

ow to the jaun

he reason of f

ote from the truth th

take when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth an

the easy sport of the over-

urney across the is

rer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest

no harbor, time has no shore, it rushe

us-we know not what relations it has with our minds. But one thing is sure, that, under certain conditions, our soul, through the exercise of m

him a spark of divine radiance which is often the torch whi

can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang

is our natural and orig

ure to march further on, even till he enters the very bowels of Rome, and breaks open the Capitol i

steps into the th

to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner, and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to ha

h men that take fair words and magisteri

reat mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong

expensive brood to rear-they eat up everything, and ar

aws look for

l, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with

t will please itself with v

ple is a passion f

the line, are undisturbed

ims another origin than that of induction and deductio

t will explain; and there is no good theory of dis

dependence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "that inbred lo

e from time to time we obstinately

ey are like babies baptized, they have a soul fro

me's finishing sc

It is of a throbbing heart, outr

ime you will come to this, that because a thing ought

stinates struggles

measurable distance between lat

ined at any easy rate; it must have large pensions, and be fed with bo

or at the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastenin

precipice: for these, none are better but kites and c

man must retrograde if i

is a being so limited! But it is precisely because his days are few, and he cannot attain to all, that a little more culture is of import

ever go backw

breadth forward has been in the agony of some soul, and humanity has reached bles

is lame.-

ay be disguised in helpless embryos. In fact, the world is full of hopefu

f old, bear the traces of martyrdom, but

through sorrow. The power of creating obstacles to progress

solving which, humanity is h

ds of a new degree of progress in the world, bu

ht. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we

y and the assurance o

earth without adding to that progress by one degree remains uninscribed upon the reg

day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time

than benefits: hope is a cable and

ge proofs by reasoning are of mo

e least, so prove it, that the probation bear no

akes some friends and ma

ties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as

sperity a shadow may overturn them; but if they be in adverse

go the bridle.

, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, a

ctive and comprehensive than the most el

, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man mo

aped on prudence; yet there is not the most insignific

are golden apprentices, silver journ

end, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of buil

fication of a cook is punctuality. The sa

men of business, and the graceful

s punishment for that crime which co

d as that a sick man be cured by a physician; f

me, but it comes

the will supple it har

e best of us are but poor wretches just saved from shipwreck: can we feel anything

is not by making punishment fam

in the punishment of an injury

what an inexpressible absurdity t

y inferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out of good company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearance

of words that agree in sound

ses, but God dispos

is way; but the Lord dir

ect to half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain i

they be hatched into action,

rsuing is the prize the va

hout shaking, indeed is too

immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no alienation, d

ry is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes l

per stuff in it; and a man becomes famous be

rse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller natur

r storms. Everything is more beautifu

in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world c

rs as are usually read; others you may read for

life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to e

of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what

far more than their appropriateness, which have made John

s by plucking bon-mots from

ndums of the

e often those which contain the germ of the

hings is almost equal to i

horoughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every b

may cling to the rock of ages as a shel

s of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar, or

ours old, I am daily admonished that allusions, the most obvious, to

ed the thirsty groun

er of the summer

ain for which poor shephe

re filled with gath

ling daughter of

and colored by the

g covenant.-

due to superiority of rank, it would be when the p

'tis not the king's stamp can

y be; but he who makes a coun

nd haste make all th

ess that which we run at, and l

ast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take your nourishment in at

oks, but shallow

e the wearisome hours of life, which come to

e between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of P

d profited in strange co

as chosen a chamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; we must strain our sinews, as he has s

tween the spur and the

ers not to reason at all; and others to

kberries I would give no man a re

we can reason on actualities, but

ly and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in

reason: I think him so, becaus

s complete: swift instinct leaps;

ts remote; but reason can discover things only

te grasp inf

Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but rea

erve order. In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our follies. Somet

king before and after, gave us not that capability

sions but not suffer

ractice for all one's life, that word is reciprocity. What yo

y than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his

steadfast well-doing, and they who are the most persistent, and work in

do right. But do not care to convince him. Men w

s good, wise, and strong. What

ies us away from our fellow-men

m the merely sensual, the effort of the soul to eth

oes, I would add, never act or write till it has done so. This rule has saved me from many an act of folly. It is

he old-reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, c

d, that out of hell lea

to curb desire, to break the stubborn will

s, and, for the most, become much more the

s deep into the heart as a sharp diamond? Why must we first w

are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progres

ous, childish, merciless tyrant; that He is best served by a regular tenor of good actions, not by bad singing,

e consolation if reli

rve their strength, but they will never again flourish in their original glory until relig

t, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making men abject and sad, impair their moral

f the souls that the world

d out if charity were really made the pr

in range, subject to wind and tide. So we have for an

s the most tolerant

ives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of

fades; remembrance is the

ts expiation. The former appertains to a tormented consci

he atmosphere of pr

es. Infected minds to their deaf pillows

by fairy ficti

y is precisely the touchston

n grass and flowers the grave in

s that sleeps in be

en, and feelin

ation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know

second innocen

choose to be disturbed; and he is much more thankful to the man who confirms him in his errors, and leaves him al

eet sauce of l

hear the sins they lov

e very poetry of reproach; it speaks a

practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century

ligion, might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "I

y one is republ

and the nurse of manly exertions;" it produces more labor and more talent then twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the

n is as dangerous as

endent on suffrage, to be increased or diminishe

s charitable speeches, to foreign

ot be blown out, but it ofte

tion or his conduct, but never be

the requests of my friends, and the supplica

uests wants commonly more than he

o most cheerfully commit

ill; and, whatever it be, it will be either he

s and rewards has ta'en wit

l surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as it pleaseth God; bu

neath their load; the brave bear

t. "Thy will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a

courage of Christia

ponsibility educate

y in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sag

e without hope of return, shall we never, on the

hile her sword is not yet unsheathed, she stretches out her huge left arm and grasps her vict

is a verity that applies to evi

ough sweet, bitter ere long b

the greatest knave is honest and sincere,

their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because i

pleasant thoughts bring sad th

as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stag

than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the mo

uffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves b

olution hut what was ripe in the con

larva of civiliz

necessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity an

en it's past and prospered, '

nd accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering ideas with propriet

root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are c

soul by showing their objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or less; but instruction is

are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, mov

stark naught; there's no m

to riches lies through c

the insufficiency of riches, is that they

leasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out

me a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the searc

re. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says, "The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he considers not that it is not in the power of ri

annot cause them; he is much more noble who deserv

t only a matter of greed,

-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them

y. Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that

ve turned rogue if

people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of th

t win without sacrif

ade under an impulse of good-nature. The good-na

est thing under the sky is a soul inca

t sad, but our ch

thout exception: That in this world the salary or reward is alw

more innocent than it really is, till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out o

he vices of a gui

pplement of pub

hrink from ridicule, tho

iric I take it for

tory false that ought n

piquant, it is a sort of

from emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, o

oad,-a person less imposing,-in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroa

and shining morning face, creeping like a

k of the chain, man is the last. Men are young, the earth is old. Vegetable and animal chemistr

is uncertain

same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away

has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of go

mean, how contemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man? The Jewish authors were incapable of the di

ret as a bird betrays her nest, by

ing a stone in the air, and if you know who throws th

out knowing why; they are not so for c

sects is not to be ascertained m

me from men; morality is everywhere the

reeds fierce latitudi

thing they take delight in; not look upon beauty, wear no good clothes, eat no good meat, etc., which seems the great

rtue that good men preach and

selves,-others may judge, but cannot know us,-G

me strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its o

e never see as they are,-one's self

earts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor his i

wear when they think of no on

t, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenanc

ture, we are almost equally sensitive,-the ill-breeding tha

usehold god, a man

flatterers is self

s both our faults an

the regions of self-love, there still r

y tempered with wisdom, is no

ation for Number O

d that wherever she has been less bountiful in her gifts, there she makes it up with a l

ed sin in the ca

re than self-esteem, ground

e centered on thy

ength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulu

will, but never

sion that he can command resou

this, the first doubt of one'

ards, your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out o

for your protection is

r wreath of feeling, the su

the power of

subdued light.-M

ted to say, that as a sore palate findeth grit, so an

or which felt a stai

the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons c

sioned souls part, and return to one another, b

ething that reminds me of the directness of style which

ravest tragedy, Shakespeare not only made such apparently discordant elements mutually heighten and complete the general effect which he contemplated, but in so doing t

d whatever can be known of the heart of

y; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling l

to read Shakespea

t come from the hand of God, with a life that, though man

speare, fancy'

Shakespeare's na

re the world possesses. Whoever is at home in

ous thought that is uppermost in her mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and t

ind themselves thrown into exalted mental condi

wn to many profound readers, though books which the last conflagra

imagination is hurrying him along, but when

d it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be

speare was an innat

hasty conscience

n more painful than rea

the chance of bein

de imperious sur

because of that magnification which proverbially belongs to the unknown; and, secondl

ghts no tongu

peak; joy bred and born but in

imperfections, and

of suffering is

val with ete

ctuary of prudence

ord never does

g of fools and one of the v

fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and

es consent.

the contradiction that arises from impe

rt is the only passion of true artists. Palestrina's music resembles the music of Rossini, a

first step, and the las

n tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a li

larly accommodate themselves to the common and human m

licity which is far above

wn again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs u

ers many an ugly fa

uences of sin; punishment is swift a

his devilish m

no power can se

its glory, scarce appeared. Towards our evening

makes the action go

e evident consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the

and some by virtue

deformity, and

shadow dea

ll ye do it; and if ye do evil, agai

not committed which seems

on as well as those of c

tend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, a

th noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in

ticism is slow s

st success, except in one line. He may rise above ot

luck, it is skill that lead

lways on the side of the

ath by slanderous t

orld's slander over a good name. You may kill them,

n, forever housed where it g

ws penetration in them. As a cat watching for mice does not look up though an elephant goes by, so are they so busy mousing for defects, that they let great excellences pass them unnoticed. I will

ortance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fam

them that Parmenio watched. Oh, how securely may they sleep over whom He watches that never slumbers nor sl

l fever he sleeps

of its own; when courted most, it lingers still

slumber, a little folding o

r lamps while w

sepulchr

and doth fulfill all offices

home; the friendless find in t

not the body's

of nature is re

nted many crimes, has also sm

e smile that accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and

y when the heart pull

ed not to know what guests were in her eyes, which part

s childlike and b

a white crape bonnet in order to ent

, and have no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors. The severest critics

n society, you must consent to be taught m

ty tribes, the bor

nge is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. The civi

chameleon-like, from

men themselves; the citizen may peris

lovers, the ambitious, observers, and f

the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstan

e soul of progres

works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to lonelin

of hope, pleasure, and happiness, the merchandi

n the better I think

e bubble reputation even in t

t is that direction is left to the commander, execution to the sold

changeful wanderer, and can warm him

be: they are to the world as poppi

be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite, for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief. Reme

h which others are tormented, is t

derstanding, but solitude is

gh an opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be oft

e only is alone who live

ll companions when we seek

ost part, in using a word in one sense in all the prem

uth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, the

s are those which tell of

r offence, I tender it here; I do as truly

e, because I wee

ies as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and noth

tiful than beaut

withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with f

evening, but some hear

, that which first brought sin into the world must,

n million sources, and floods the world. But it

at bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dea

on, and we may measure our road to wisdom by

row that heaven c

g hours; makes the night morning,

since it stimulates

ith the joys they

his little handful of thorns. Such a person is fit to bear Nero company in his funeral sorrow for the loss of one of Poppea's hairs, or help to mourn for Le

his alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturall

s matter? Never mind. What is t

ain conflicting sentiments and contradictory

God himself beautified with the title of h

ears ago it was only necessary to be well dressed and amiable; to-day a

it contained a great deal both of what was new and what was true: but that unf

say pleasant things to our friends, and tell

mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clo

ad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whe

ar speech, richer than the richest music, which are a delight while they are heard, which linger still upon the ear in softene

ld repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the

as they refresh a man that is weary, so t

valleys, whose breast-bouquet is gardens, a

ng unbosoms ever

ng autumn, angry winter, change t

y sire, hoar Winter's blooming chil

ing earth, by the winds which tell

y, which light the world with t

hose true, fixed, and resting quality there

o far,-far away

nd around his burning bosom b

love's harbinger

ne sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day

run, is the worth of the individ

s make flexible the knees o

a giant's strength; but it is tyrannou

athematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; mora

tizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, and the knowledg

t capable of delighting us after

ooks. What can be got out of them is at best only material

y in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be

tyle is the

enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it

but prose ru

rince never frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and w

y masonry is well done, but ou

vents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the len

le is alone cla

springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces aff

ch the seeds of truth float

esult of long meditation. His words, as light a

ended, when they are at their mercy, is humble submission; whereas a bold front, a firm and

in awe of yours

d rules passions, desires, and f

en succeed through success; they much ofte

oncluded in favor of any nation up

ose should keep his passion cool, an

e by little, bit by bit,-that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that i

g what you can do well; and doing well whatever

foul to those tha

nting world fawns on success and

has been full of blu

bject habitually directs his powers. Thus, indeed, even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity

he breeze first strikes your sails, and the w

th many times undo

that kills be the same that is killed? Must it not necessarily be something superior and surviving? The act of the soul, which in that fatal instant is in one

y by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as th

his life the victim of his reason, does in some sort

e sun, refulgent Su

snow lie germs of sum

alchemist, turning with the splendor of his precious eyes

effulgent from amid the fla

e last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should

raelites through Jordan! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than i

g in a traditional superstition than a horse can

hile superstition profan

at is not in defect is properly c

il omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inro

religion of which base so

h makes the evening star shine at us with a threat, and the blessing of a beggar encourage us. An

cial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears whi

an you are quite willing to lose. Remember the words of the wise man. "He that is sure

feit with too much, as they that

es, and contumaciousn

picious is to invite

n that we are paid for our suspicion

es, as well as credul

for crows, else you'll set oth

ch enables us to feel with him-which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses t

s the divinest passion o

you bring to them. A cathedral makes only the devotional feel

e is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted

rous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's

f her sex as much as the tact of her se

ions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out hi

alent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything

han to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient sour

ay unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. They fail when eve

ends on application and industry, and it is a vol

inherited; genius, being the action of reas

upidity only to have one sort of talent,-a

an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue, that an e

o good doers.

its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quali

tle and who talk

ho have the leas

rejecting whatever is offered for the en

advice they never will; for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than

nd strong, and feelingly alive

re but reminisce

rth to educate faithfully the children of others, whi

er than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener

of a softened hear

a night, but joy cometh

the unanswera

soul-felt pen

e the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scen

ion of a falli

bassador, and never returns from the

ing gods are deaf

art of drawing tears, a power which he has in

r only eloqu

ng brine.-S

when the founders of the republic die, give hope tha

mine eyes, and gave me u

little address may be followed

ligion. Her sole treasure is

oner than a tear

llness, seek to hide themselves

iamonds in their

the happiest smile

sin of excessiv

told tale, vexing the dull ear

e falling snow f

t sovereignty would have pawne

our in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentme

e the foundation of all social

n can prevail; if temperance fails, t

as vice may be withstood, by a statute, but no virtue is or can be created by a

and the body healthy, abstain from

abstinence nor excess ever

elf should imitate the dumb anima

ed to the art of life till he ha

alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our w

s still most cause

that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of, for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warn

s of a woman become the sole def

ns put on, they do suggest at firs

e tempt him, beckoning his skill

it than struggle i

s if God fished with a line, and the

, has come, it is never our tenderness that

rticipating of one common amusement; and experiences, from their very aspect, a superior sensibility

t to quarrel. How much it is to be wished that the celebration of nat

of no use; but puzzle their thoughts, and lose themselves in those va

y can erect nothing. They can pull down a c

minutes together. Everybody has seemed to admit that it was a perpetual deviation from a particular path, and a perpetual return to it; whic

t is a flower of

vain though their thoughts

not. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him, but it is impossible to get

, and spoil like bales un

med, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they g

ure-nature is invisible

steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them,

ers its thoughts,-there i

arched weariness of his last illness, "give me a grea

age, where a neat rivulet of text shall me

tiful thought requires, perhaps, as

not acorns, but merely

t; and in proportion to the depth of its so

t in their threats are the weakest

he force of a sentence whether a

s, the common gra

nd the hour run through th

onverts than reas

o no man's lu

isest council

urs, because there is no obstac

the wound which reason

that bring us all t

ment but in purchase of its worth; and what it

shes more than the club of

Dan?; each drop is gol

sty" applied to a worm, who, in the midst of hi

an be given a man are those of

tolerance lies with those who ha

truth condemns.

he best religio

we find that the tongue of man creates nearl

d, than, living dully sluggardized at home wear o

the soul, sitting amid t

on by reality, and, instead of thinking how t

is to judge the

mes back loaded with honey from his rambles, and wh

eases, but not the

wiped it out; betrayed his country; and his name

up of unconsidered

a calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said P

as powerful as a

to cease to be trifles. The citizens of Megara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offer excited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquere

science not only in every man

n and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and

ost are those which weigh o

us, because little thi

he element of movement, without which

ise, and the seeds have never flour

utiful as trut

ience: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as a

ood; her own straightforwardness i

s, you find every truth met by a counter t

a spiritual essence, which gives one peace, and fills the atmosph

othing can need a

few grains of chaff; on the contrary, we may sometimes profitably receive

that yourself may to you

ll the water be quiet and stand still: so in troubled times you can see l

the truth, hot as fire t

ficult to know it. The evil is only that men will no

ess a matter of will than of habit; and I doubt if any occasion can be t

or man to act is man, and that the only

is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but temper

by fairy ficti

n earth is virtue; the only l

re mischief than nic

vors if we bite thr

so that we slink past it in rather a blinkin

peated, still it is well to

that there can be purity and freedom. F

nor constitution, can be final. T

udity.-Alfr

pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away, the last

stern horizon, like a magician, extended his

her sober livery all

stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and pu

y the bright track of his fiery car, gives t

us; but she was always ugly, and with a wom

the best guardian of a yo

or as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may

sensibility; the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, accordin

lf. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great

en given thee. Solely over one man therein thou hast quite a

t without an apology. Urbanity ushers in water that needs n

you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a re

not rest from your labors now?" asked a friend. "Because," replied the venerable man, "I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and H

e-the eternal sacrific