23–29 October 1837

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

I find, in town, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration, of which 500 copies were printed, all sold, in just one month.

The event of death is always astounding ; ourphilosophy never reaches, never possesses it ; we are always at the beginning of our catechism; always the definition is yet to be made. What is death ?