O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.