Most Joyful Let The Poet Be, It

Of All The Discoveries Which Men Need To Make, The Most Important, At The Present Moment, Is That Of The Self-forming Power Treasured Up In Themselves. They Little Suspect Its Extent, As Little As The Savage Apprehends The Energy Which The Mind Is Created To Exert On The Material World.

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy Intercourse With The Superior Minds, And These Invaluable Means Of Communication Are In Reach Of All. In The Best Books, Great Men Talk To Us, Give Us Their Most Precious Thoughts, And Pour Their Souls Into Ours. God Be Thanked For Books. They Are The Voices Of The Distant And The Dead, And Make Us Heirs Of The Spiritual Life Of Past Ages. Books Are True Levellers. They Give To All, Who Faithfully Use Them, The Society, The Spiritual Presence Of The Best And Greatest Of Our Race.

All Noble Enthusiasms Pass Through A Feverish Stage, And Grow Wiser And More Serene

No One Should Part With Their Individuality And Become That Of Another.

It Feeds And Grows On The Blood Which It Sheds. The Passions , From Which It Springs, Gain Strength And Fury From Indulgence.