Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.