A Soul,--a Spark Of The Never-dying Flame

I've Heard It Said That There Are Men Who Read In Books To Convince Themselves There Is A God. I Know Not But Man May So Deform His Works In The Settlements, As To Leave That Which Is So Clear In The Wilderness A Matter Of Doubt Among Traders And Priests.

Some Changes Of Language Are To Be Regretted, As They Lead To False Inferences, And Society Is Always A Loser By Mistaking Names For Things.

Candor Is A Proof Of Both A Just Frame Of Mind, And Of A Good Tone Of Breeding. It Is A Quality That Belongs Equally To The Honest Man And To The Gentleman.

The Vulgar Charge That The Tendency Of Democracies Is To Leveling, Meaning To Drag All Down To The Level Of The Lowest, Is Singularly Untrue; Its Real Tendency Being To Elevate The Depressed To A Condition Not Unworthy Of Their Manhood.

The Ability To Discriminate Between That Which Is True And That Which Is False Is One Of The Last Attainments Of The Human Mind.