Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.