22–28 February 1830

We are, by dint of self-command on one hand and omniscience on the other, as if a dead wall were built on one side of our plot of ground, and on the other it was not fenced by so much as a stake or a pin from the boundless expanse. A cunning dissimulator may shut out man's eye from so much as a glance at his thoughts, but God and all angels behold him on the spiritual side.