“Why does man go about organizing systems, when he himself must be reorganized?”
“The thing to be done will not unite the doers.”
“When man forgets what he is, he soon is put into a state of uneasiness, and made to suffer in pain what was designed for him to be pleasure.”
“We are always learning the way that heaven acts, but are very shy to invite it to act upon us, and are very unwilling to submit to the preparatory process.”
“Self-improvement by the selfish spirit is the most deceitful of all deceits.”
“While you persevere in washing a man’s face with dirty water, it will never be clean; you must get pure water to wash with.”
“A child is a religious being prior to its being an intellectual being; and must not be turned away from the divine order.”
AN AFTERNOON AT ST. LAZARE.
We paid a visit yesterday (Sunday) to St. Lazare, and all that we saw and heard there struck us as so interesting, and so entirely different from our preconceived notions concerning that ill-famed centre of crime and punishment, that we cannot but think our readers will likewise be interested in hearing a detailed and accurate account of it.