Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.