Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Bright and illustrious illusions!

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.