If The Mind Loves Solitude, It Has

To Behold, Is Not Necessary To Observe, And The Power Of Comparing And Combining Is Only To Be Obtained By Education. It Is Much To Be Regretted That Habits Of Exact Observation Are Not Cultivated In Our Schools; To This Deficiency May Be Traced Much Of The Fallacious Reasoning, The False Philosophy Which Prevails.

In Every Remodelling Of The Present, The Existing Condition Of Things Must Be Supplanted By A New One. Now Every Variety Of Circumstances In Which Men Find Themselves, Every Object Which Surrounds Them, Communicates A Definite Form And Impress To Their Internal Nature. This Form Is Not Such That It Can Change And Adapt Itself To Any Other A Man May Choose To Receive; And The End Is Foiled, While The Power Is Destroyed, When We Attempt To Impose Upon That Which Is Already Stamped In The Soul A Form Which Disagrees With It.

War Seems To Be One Of The Most Salutary Phenomena For The Culture Of Human Nature; And It Is Not Without Regret That I See It Disappearing More And More From The Scene.

When We Are Not Too Anxious About Happiness And Unhappiness, But Devote Ourselves To The Strict And Unsparing Performance Of Duty, Then Happiness Comes Of Itself - Nay, Even Springs From The Midst Of A Life Of Troubles And Anxieties And Privations.

It Is A Characteristic Of Old Age To Find The Progress Of Time Accelerated. The Less One Accomplishes In A Given Time, The Shorter Does The Retrospect Appear.