All Nature Is The Temple;

The Impartiality Of History Is Not That Of The Mirror, Which Merely Reflects Objects, But Of The Judge, Who Sees, Listens, And Decides.

Love Of Country Produces Among Men Such Examples As Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, Unselfish, Symmetrical; Among Women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, Devoted, Marvelous.

Chance Often Gives Us That Which We Should Not Have Presumed To Ask.

We Are Earth's Children, And Life Is The Same In Sap As In Blood; All That The Earth, Our Mother, Feels And Expresses To The Eye By Her Form And Aspect, In Melancholy Or In Splendor, Finds An Echo Within Us.

Shall Not This Bygone Eden That We Knew In Our Eternal Life Have Shape And Hue? For Where Time Is Not Shall Not All Time Be? In That Calm Breast Whereto Our Souls Are Cleaving Shall We Not Find Our Loved Ones Beyond Grieving About The Hearth-stone Of Eternity?