Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
Good taste consists first upon fitness.