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.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.