If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.