“How seldom, friend, a good, great man inherits
Honour or wealth, with all his toil and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.”
—Coleridge.
“Did you ever sit and look at a handsome or well-made man, and thank God from your heart for having allowed you such a privilege and lesson?”—Kingsley.
“There is an inscrutability of truth which sometimes increases its power, while we wait with solemn reverence for the hour when it shall be fully revealed to us; and our faith, like the setting sun, may clothe celestial mysteries with a soft and rosy-coloured light, which makes them more suitable to our present existence.”—Cheever.
“PUT IT ON THE SHELF!”—A BLANK WORLD!—CLEVERNESS NO CREDIT—THE FARMER’S SON—NEW LIGHT FROM THE OLD CHRONICLES—THE MIDNIGHT DARKNESS AND THE MORNING STAR.