Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.