it comes and goes as a sudden shower. In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university."
The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty, and might teach us what strangers and novices we are, vagabond in this universe of pure power, to which we have only the smallest key. Herrick said:—
"'T is not every day that IFitted am to prophesy;No, but when the spirit fillsThe fantastic panicles,Full of fire, then I writeAs the Godhead doth indite.Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,Like the Sibyl's, through the world:Look how next the holy fireEither slakes, or doth retire;So the fancy cools,—till whenThat brave spirit comes again."1Open pageBonaparte said: "There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify all the dangers, and all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite
