The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.