How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

To study history is to study literature.

The drama is the book of the people.

It is the empiric who never fails.