The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.