What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.