Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and
colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of
mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact
with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and
roll.--_Alcott._
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. She shows us
only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.--_Emerson._
Nature is an absolute and jealous divinity. Lovely, eloquent, and
instructive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face,
and remains mute to those who, by attempting to re-fashion her, profane
her.--_Mazzini._
~Necessity.~--Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind,
which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who
really deserve them.--_Fielding._
It is observed in the golden verses of Pythagoras, that power is never
far from necessity. The vigor of the human mind quickly appears when
there is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence
is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless
passion.--_Johnson._
When God would educate a man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He
sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that,
by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternal
consolation.--_Celia Burleigh._
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it
praiseworthy.--_Joubert._
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast
necessity of heart and life.--_Tennyson._
~Neglect.~--He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from
being poor.--_Johnson._
~News.~--Give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill
tidings tell themselves when they be felt.--_Shakespeare._
~Newspapers.~--In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our
fortresses.--_Heinrich Heine._
Before this century shall run out journalism will be the whole press.
Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page.
Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light; instantly
conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of
the earth; it will spread from Pole to Pole, suddenly burning with the
fervor of soul which made it burst forth; it will be the reign of the
human mind in all its plenitude; it will not have time to ripen, to
accumulate in the form of a book; the book will arrive too late; the
only book possible from day to day is a newspaper.--_Lamartine._
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand
bayonets.--_Napoleon._
They preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves;
advising peace or war with an authority which only the first Reformers
and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moral
censure; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification; in all
ways diligently "administering the discipline of the Church." It may be
said, too, that in private disposition the new preachers somewhat
resemble the mendicant Friars of old times; outwardly, full of holy
zeal; inwardly, not without stratagem, and hunger for terrestrial
things.--_Carlyle._
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of
common life than more pompous and durable volumes.--_Johnson._
~Night.~--Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.--_Mrs. Barbauld._
The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of
night.--_Longfellow._