Life Is A Fragment, A Moment Between

The Cry Has Been That When War Is Declared, All Opposition Should Therefore Be Hushed. A Sentiment More Unworthy Of A Free Country Could Hardly Be Propagated. If The Doctrine Be Admitted, Rulers Have Only To Declare War And They Are Screened At Once From Scrutiny. . . . In War, Then, As In Peace, Assert The Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press. Cling To This As The Bulwark Of All Our Rights And Privileges.

Innocent Amusements Are Such As Excite Moderately, And Such As Produce A Cheerful Frame Of Mind, Not Boisterous Mirth; Such As Refresh, Instead Of Exhausting, The System; Such As Recur Frequently, Rather Than Continue Long; Such As Send Us Back To Our Daily Duties Invigorated In Body And Spirit; Such As We Can Partake Of In The Presence And Society Of Respectable Friends; Such As Consist With And Are Favorable To A Grateful Piety; Such As Are Chastened By Self-respect, And Are Accompanied With The Consciousness That Life Has A Higher End Than To Be Amused.

We Never Know A Greater Character Unless There Is In Ourselves Something Congenial To It.

There Is But A Very Minute Portion Of The Creation Which We Can Turn Into Food And Clothes, Or Gratification For The Body; But The Whole Creation May Be Used To Minister To The Sense Of Beauty.

Religion Is Faith In An Infinite Creator, Who Delights In And Enjoins That Rectitude Which Conscience Commands Us To Seek. This Conviction Gives A Divine Sanction To Duty.