On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.