A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.