I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.