A Dominant Religion Is Never Ascetic.

In After-life You May Have Friends--fond, Dear Friends; But Never Will You Have Again The Inexpressible Love And Gentleness Lavished Upon You Which None But A Mother Bestows.

But Thou, Through Good And Evil, Praise And Blame, Wilt Not Thou Love Me For Myself Alone? Yes, Thou Wilt Love Me With Exceeding Love, And I Will Tenfold All That Love Repay; Still Smiling, Though The Tender May Reprove, Still Faithful, Though The Trusted May Betray.

All The Walks Of Literature Are Infested With Mendicants For Fame, Who Attempt To Excite Our Interest By Exhibiting All The Distortions Of Their Intellects And Stripping The Covering From All The Putrid Sores Of Their Feelings.

No Particular Man Is Necessary To The State. We May Depend On It That, If We Provide The Country With Popular Institutions, Those Institutions Will Provide It With Great Men.

If Ever Shakespeare Rants, It Is Not When His Imagination Is Hurrying Him Along, But When He Is Hurrying His Imagination Along.