Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!