The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-16
From BLaokaooods Magazins.
THOUGHTS AND SENTIME MT 8.
FROM J. p. RICHTER.

FROM J. p hICHTEh-
"No man ought to be privileged to laugh at mankind
but he who right heartily loves them.
The Earfh.-The earth is the cal lie sac IN
the great city of God-the camera obscura, fuli
of inverted and diminished images from more
beautiful word-the cloudy halo round better
sun-the numerat0r of an unknown denOminatOr.
Verify, il is almost an absolute nothing.
Mise me,a--Gecks--A wise man holds his
tongue hundred times before a fool, because he
requires three-and-twenty sheets to set forth his
opinion. geek needs only line or two; his
opinions are new islands that rise out Of the sea,
and have no connection with any earthly thing,
save vanity.
Goodness and Cool,.ess.--Not cold,,ess, but
cooling dO,on, is the true wisdom; and our in
ward man, like glowing metal cast in its form,
should be allowed to cool only by degrees, that
1t may form itself into more smooth and perfect
shape; tor no other reason has Nature cast our
souls IN hot bodies, even as the forms of metal
are heated before the cast is made.
The Court atmospheric hate the Simeon
wind of Court, which passes innocuous over
those who lie on the ground, but dries those to
powder, who stand upright.
LJe.-Man has two minutes and half to
lve-One to smile-one to sigh-and a half to
love-for in the middle Of this minute he dies.
but the grave is not deep-it is the shining
tread of an angel that seeks us. When the un-
known hand throws the last fatal dart at the head
OF man-then boweth he his head, and the dart
only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds.
Synapafhy.-Two noble souls discover their
relationship first by the like love that they bear
to third.
IsDo Friends.-Mute moved around them the
vortices of love, and drew them nearer They
stretched out their arms to one another, and sank
volceless together, and betwixt the brothered
souls lay nothing but two mortal bodies. Over
whelmed by the food-tide of love and low. for
minute their drunken eyes were closed-and
when they looked up again, the solemn NIGHT.
with his suns sunk in the eternal depths. stood
before them-the milky way, like the ring Of
Eternity, clasped the Unreasonable space. the
sharp sickle of the earthly moon came with 4
gentle cut upon the short days and lows Of hui
mainly.
nut there was something there vet more high
than the suns, yet more solid than the ring Of
eternity and yet more bright than the sickle Of
u r lnoon-and that was the undying friendship
OF two souls in two frail frames of dust.
Memory.-The distance of memory alone
can change the drops Of time through which we
SWIM INTO the rainbow Of enjoyment.
Memory-Hope.-Two perspective painters
lead US, poor bewitched mortals. tbronoh tbe
whole theatre of life, and these are n.e,,,or, am
hope. S a'''
Rule Of Sfudy.-Neyer ,cr;fe on subiec
without having first read yourself full on 4
and never read on a subject till you have fhoueh,
yourself hungry on it.
Existence Of God.-To prove the exstenc.
of God, only two things are necessary . .,v'
men, OF whom one may be dead. that the otbe
may the more leisurely study and peruse him.
Poetry and Philosophy.-From the stora an,
tne rortlco OF thought we must have view into
the EPlcurean Gardens Of poetry.
True Greatness.-Be great to despise tho
eartf-be greater to honor it.
Ra1le Of Lite.-Man should carry life Ike >
SPIRITED falcon in his hands, allowing it to mount
INTO the ether, and being able to call it hack
again to earth, whenever it is necessary.
Music.-Holy music reveals to the souls &c
men past which they never have known. and
futurty, which in this life at least, they never
can know.
ReUie,cers.-The reviewers are a set of mica
rable gourd-painters-th are the statues Of the
god Terminus that stand upon the marches y
science without either arms or legs. AS Minerya
with her magic wand changed Ulysses, SO thew
with their critical baton, would fan chance ali
authors into beggars like themselves.
Poetry.-Poetry is like pair of skates which
run fiatly over the smooth crystal of the ideal
but worse than pair of Dutchman's shoes ON thf
rough highway Of life.
The Beggar's Heauen.-There is one heaven
which is open to all, even to the meanest beopar-
the Heaven of the Ioilette--for by some Chance
glittering rag is waited to him with which he
patches up his most needfuI rents; and with this
he struts, regenerated before his brother beooars
and offers himself, selfcomplacent, 10 their 81
lent admiration.
The Poetical Characfer-Poetry forms ito nro-
fessors to no definite human character. Ike
horses trained to play tricks, they can put them
selves into all sorts of strange and surprising
postures-but they are generally useless on the
road.
Money.-No man needs money so mncb 90
he who despises it.
The Iheologians-Mer theologians arc tho
greatest and narrowest Of all egotists: thew MAKE
God the frere servant Of their petty nar;sb and
imagine that eclipses of the sun are sent ONLY -
shade and cool them on their way to the church.
L.