It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.