Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.